Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Porter, Roy, 1946-
2. Teich, Mikuláš.

Description

1. xiii, 408 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

1. Sex customs > History > Congresses
2. Sexuality > History
3. Sexology > History > Congresses

Contents

1. Sowing the field : Greek and Roman sexology / Helen King -- Sadism, masochism and history, or When is behaviour sado-masochistic? / Vern L. Bullough, Dwight Dixon and Joan Dixon -- Some traditional Indian views on menstruation and female sexuality / Julia Leslie -- Sexual knowledge in England, 1500-1750 / Patricia Crawford -- The transformation of Eve : women's bodies, medicine and culture in early modern England / Robert Martensen -- The literature of sexual advice before 1800 / Roy Porter.
2. The eclipse of sexual selection theory / Simon J. Frankel -- Mammals, primatology and sexology / Londa Schiebinger -- Krafft-Ebing's psychological understanding of sexual behaviours / Renate Hauser -- The customs of the Magians / Michael Mitterauer -- Masculinity and the decadence / George L. Mosse -- "Not a stranger, a doctor" / Angus Mclaren -- "May the doctor advise extramarital intercourse?" / Andreas Hill -- The development of sexology in the U S A in the early twentieth century / Vern L. Burrlough -- Sigmund Freud and the sexologists / Sander L. Gilman -- "The English have hot-water bottles" / Lesley A. Hall -- Tainted love / Richard Davenport-Hines and Christopher Phipps.

Call number

1. JFE 95-4080

Note

1. "This book derives in part from a conference held at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in the summer of 1991 and organized by Michael Neve and Christine Stevenson"--Acknowledgements.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

1. Sexual knowledge, sexual science : the history of attitudes to sexuality / edited by Roy Porter and Mikuláš Teich.

Imprint

1. Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Indexed term

1. Sexuality History

Added author

1. Porter, Roy, 1946-
2. Teich, Mikuláš.

LCCN

1. 93028940

ISBN

1. 0521444349 (hard)
2. 0521448913 (paper)

Research call number

1. JFE 95-4080